In an op-ed appearing in The Hill on April 24, 2025, NCLC Senior Attorney Chi Chi Wu discusses how the Trump administration escalated its assault on immigrants’ rights by reporting living people as “dead” in the Social Security Administration’s death master file, even though those people had lawfully obtained Social Security numbers. Such falsehoods by a government agency are outrageous and unconscionable — and they’re a clear violation of federal law.
“Despite the flurry of confusion in the Capitol, we are still a nation of laws, and consumers falsely reported as deceased still have rights.”
Chi Chi Wu, senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center.
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